1856 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang (18 October), Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ

Events

• 16 April Jacob Heinrich Moresco opens a shop with women's clothing and fashion accessories at Amagertorv 13 in Copenhagen.
• 27 April The Roskuilde–Korsør extension of the Copenhagen–Roskilde Railway is inaugurated.
• 13 July C. K. Hansen is founded.

Undated

• Seamen's Association of 1856 is founded.
• The Ceres Brewery is founded by Malthe Conrad Lottrup in Aarhus.

Births

• 18 March – Arnold Krog, designer (died 1931)
• 13 April – Urania Marquard Olsen, actress and theatre director (died 1932)
• 6 September – Hack Kampmann, architect (died 1920)
• 7 September Julie Laurberg, photographer (died 1925)
• 28 October – Mary Steen, photographer (died 1939)
• 18 November Joakim Skovgaard, artist (died 1933)

Deaths

January{{ndash}}March

• 26 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (born 1800)

July{{ndash}}September

• 2 July – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, author (born 1773)
• 14 July – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (born 1800)
• 20 July – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (born 1803)
• 21 July – Emil Aarestrup, poet (born 1800)
• 15 September Severin Løvenskiold, baron (born 1777)

October{{ndash}}December

• 25 November Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist (born 1786)

References

References

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2. (1981). "Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet". Universitetsforl.
3. "A. Westenholz".